Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

As soon as he finished speaking, a scream was heard in the yard.

Before anyone could react, they saw two women with disheveled hair running out from inside.

"No, we don't want to study. We just want to live our own lives, take care of our husbands and children, and we don't want to take the imperial examinations like men do."

They burst into tears and said, "Miss Song, we were wrong. We shouldn't have asked you for help. Please let us go."

They cried so sadly that their eyes were filled with tears, but after they finished speaking, they found that the surroundings were so quiet without a sound at all.

One of the women lowered her sleeve to wipe her tears, and out of the corner of her eye she saw everyone in the store looking at the two of them expressionlessly.

The two were a little embarrassed at the moment, but the show had to go on.

Seeing that no one in the shop paid any attention to them, they pretended to run out the door.

They cried loudly at the door, accusing their visitors one by one of how they forced them to learn to read and write, and how they taught them to abandon their husbands and children in order to pursue official positions.

This cry immediately gathered the resentful men around. They had long been dissatisfied with this place but had never dared to take any action. Now they had an excuse.

Filled with righteous indignation, they gathered together to appease the two women, and then angrily stated that they would work together to seek justice for them.

When the crowd was excited, the virtuous king and Wang Lanzhi 'happened' to pass by here.

Seeing this, he smiled and said, "Prime Minister Wang, it is not convenient for me to show up easily in the capital, so I will leave this matter to you."

Wang Lanzhi immediately felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. "Your Highness, this Song Zhi is very evil. Every time I run into her, nothing good happens. Why don't we find someone else to go?"

The virtuous king frowned coldly, "You have always been able to do things in a trusting manner. You have done a good job in delegating power to the Crown Prince this time. It is not like you to say that you want to destroy your own prestige. You will not achieve anything great if you develop inner demons for a woman. If you are afraid, it is better to face her head-on and defeat her."

Wang Lanzhi hesitated, "But every time..."

"Prime Minister Wang, I don't want to cooperate with a loser who is afraid of women."

"I... will try." Wang Lanzhi's gloomy face was filled with uneasiness.

He slowly got off the carriage, straightened his back and tried to appear calm.

The virtuous king did not show up in the carriage behind him. "Go ahead. I have already made arrangements. You don't need to worry about anything."

After hearing this, Wang Lanzhi finally felt more confident. He first asked a team of guards to step forward to control the situation, and then he stepped forward with his hands behind his back.

The two women were sobbing, and the other men were swearing at each other towards the shop door.

Wang Lanzhi cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "Why are you gathering to cause trouble?!"

Everyone made way for Wang Lanzhi to walk to the middle. The men immediately rushed forward like a flood, saying, "Your Excellency, this rouge shop is a shady business. They actually encouraged women to study for the imperial examinations. This is truly against common sense."

"Yes, I am a good wife, a thrifty and good mother. Now they have taken me away and I don't even want to go home. They even want to divorce me."

"This store has ulterior motives and is destroying the harmony of other people's families. Is it because she herself can't get married that she can't bear to see others happy?"

"Sir, you must stand up for us powerless people. They rely on the Song Mansion as their backer and don't take us seriously at all. Destroying a small family is a small matter, but being a heretic is a big deal. How can a woman in this world be allowed to set foot in the court?"

Everyone seemed to have finally found a breakthrough, and each one was more excited than the other.

Wang Lanzhi rubbed his brows with a headache, raised his hand to suppress their chattering complaints and walked straight into the store.

The men followed him with high morale, but because they couldn't enter the store, they all leaned around the door and windows to look inside.

Song Zhi saw Wang Lanzhi walk in at a glance. She raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Oh, isn't this Prime Minister Wang? He's here again."

She thought the wise king would come directly, and was a little disappointed.

Wang Lanzhi coughed dryly and pointed at the two women standing nearby. "Is it true that they accused you of forcing them to study and learn calligraphy, and instilling in them the idea that women could also take the imperial examinations and realize their ambitions?"

Song Zhixiao said naively, "Prime Minister, you really love to joke around. Hasn't this matter already been judged in front of the Emperor? The visitor was from the rouge shop, and there's no such thing as you said."

Before Wang Lanzhi could even speak, the two women immediately said, "You're lying! This is all your trickery to deceive everyone."

"You clearly said that women in this world shouldn't just be vassals. You should have forgotten all about women's rules and teachings long ago. Daughters should be strong and independent, and shouldn't be buried in the harem, wasting their lives for men's favor and children."

Song Zhi was a little surprised. She had never said these things to these two people. In fact, she had never said these things directly to the other women who joined here.

She planned to let them read and understand this truth on their own, which would be much better than for her to force them to accept it.

But they didn't expect that these words were said by the two spies who framed them.

How ironic.

Song Zhi looked at them pitifully. "Since you can say these words, I think you understand these principles. You didn't use them to resist, but instead used them to stab a group of women who are even more miserable than you."

A hint of guilt flashed across the two women's eyes, but it quickly turned into disdain.

"You don't need to tell us all this. Everyone has different pursuits. We just want to live a life of ease and comfort. Isn't it good to have a man's protection? Why do we have to work so hard?"

"Blessing? Blessing for a bruised face? Blessing for a man with three wives and four concubines? Blessing for a man without any status?"

There was a cold look in Song Zhi's eyes.

Qin Yue couldn't help but say, "We rescued you with good intentions, but you slandered and framed us for no reason. If I had known, I would have given the food to Da Huang. Dogs wag their tails when they get good things, unlike some ungrateful people."

"Don't beat around the bush and criticize us. We're just exposing the truth. Women should stay at home, take care of their husbands and children. Why do we need to do those nonsense things?"

The two had stopped crying by now, and there was undisguised malice on their faces.

Song Zhi ignored them and turned to Wang Lanzhi, saying, "It seems that the virtuous king doesn't consider you as his own, otherwise why would he let you come here at this time?"

Wang Lanzhi remained unmoved. "It's already this late, and Miss Song is still trying to sow discord."

He paused, "But I don't care about that. I only care about whether I get the result I want in the end. I have experience in enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens."

Song Zhi smiled without comment, "Then I wish that the Prime Minister can achieve what he wants one day."

Seeing that she was calm and not nervous about being caught, Wang Lanzhi couldn't help but have a bad feeling in his mind again.

He glanced at the sedan chair of the virtuous king in the distance, and kept convincing himself not to worry, as the virtuous king had already made arrangements and there would be no mistakes.

He really shouldn't be scared by a woman all the time. The previous incidents were just coincidences. He didn't believe that Song Zhi would be so lucky every time.

Thinking about it, he emphasized, "Since someone has pointed the finger at me, as the Prime Minister, I have the responsibility to get to the bottom of this matter."

He pointed at the two women and said, "Come over here and tell me in detail."